EXPIRED / [US] Amazon - Batcave 6860 for $50

Amazon just dropped the price on the Batcave to $50 with free shipping. That's 29% off, which is an excellent deal on a licensed set. Click through the Brickset Amazon discounted sets page to make sure they get credit.

That's a pretty sweet deal at $50 after tax & shipping. Its a great price for own collection or consumption. But quite early to load up for resell, I would take it 1 year from now at this price though.

Anyone notice the lowest priced 3rd party seller, TonyUK2012, is most likely a drop-ship scammer? Is this a first on Amazon? He even has 1 negative complaining about the exact scam, for which he of course denies.

^ 1 year from now it could be long gone. Look at sets that came out in January of 2011: Atlantis, City Police, Pharoah's Quest, Red Box Ninjago (wave 1), Star Wars (1st wave). See much of that stuff around anymore?

non-Direct stuff has about a 6 to 9-month shelf life these days, then it starts becoming hard to find (and expensive), unless it was an under-performing line (PQ, Atlantis, some SW sets). do you expect that to be the case for Super Heroes?

Not suggesting you stock up now, but the right time for DC Super Heroes wave 1 is probably mid-summer to early fall, not next spring.

Just grabbed one, after internally wrestling with myself over whether to get more. It probably doesn't help that I find the set pretty abysmal in most aspects, but I was always planning to get at least 1, so 29% off is pretty darn good. Now, get me 6857 at 29% off, and there's no telling how many I would buy... In fact, I find the batcave to easily be the worst of all the DC sets - and nothing else is even close.

Amazon just dropped the price on the Batcave to $50 with free shipping. That's 29% off, which is an excellent deal on a licensed set. Click through the Brickset Amazon discounted sets page to make sure they get credit.

RRP is $40, so that's hardly a deal, but I hear what you are saying. Doesn't S@H have to actually have it in stock at some point? I think they and the stores had it for like 2 weeks at launch, and not since then. Ridiculous.